2002 National Violence Against Women Survey

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is most broadly defined as behavior that is abu-sive and perpetrated by someone who is in a current or previous relationship with the victim (Nelson, Bougatsos, & Blazina, 2012); see Table 1. Intimate partner violence may occur on a continuum ranging from iso-lated incidents described as situational couple violence to intimate terrorism encompassing multiple aspects of psychological and physical abuse (Johnson, 2008). Although few studies have focused solely on the oncology popula-tion, a 2006 study by Modesitt and colleagues states that a staggering 75 % of women under treatment for breast, ovarian, endometrial, or ovarian cancer report having experienced some form of intimate partner abuse during adult-hood (Modesitt et al., 2006). Results from